Why is it important to have a clean community and parks?
How does a dirty park make us feel?
How can we keep our parks clean?
Guiding Activities:
Begin the lesson with showing students photographs of clean and dirty communities, focusing on local parks.
Ask students, “How would you feel if our playground was covered with litter like some of the other communities?” and continue discussion about littering with students.
Take students outside of school and complete a mini school clean up for students to see that even though it may look clean, there still may be litter if you look closely.
When finished, return to classroom and place students in small groups to continue discussing littering at parks focusing on:
How it makes community members feel about littering, what different types of littering they have experienced before, how littering can affect playing at local parks.
Students will complete a KWHL chart to brainstorm ways to keep our local parks clean.
Extension Activities:
Visit from the Parks and Recreation office
Interview friends and adults in their community, focusing on how they use the park, how littering can affect their experience, and how they believe the community should prevent littering.
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